-Samuel Totten presents a unique set of essays by scholars from seven fields of inquiry. The reader is introduced to wide-ranging applications of social science theories, innovative historical analysis, and thoughtful sorties of moral imagination pertaining to a wide array of topics in regard to the crime of crimes. In certain cases, the joining of academic scholarship and activism may seem problematic, but the proof of its productivity may be found in the deeds and writings of many of the authors. Now in its third generation of scholars, the field of genocide studies may be reaching 'comfortable institutionalization.' As long as mass atrocities occur, they argue, genocide studies will advance only by uncomfortable revision, deepening, extension, and challenge.-
--John Hubbel Weiss, Cornell University
-This collection of essays grabs the reader's attention by recounting the highly personal reasons that scholars acknowledged their duty to awaken the world to the horror of genocide. Their experiences bring a freshness and immediacy to a subject many would prefer to leave in the archives. Their stories are compelling and honest, and yet intellectually rigorous in handling the unpalatable facts. While international institutions continue to avert their eyes from the existence of contemporary genocide and ethnic cleansing, this volume will remain essential.- --Rebecca Tinsley, founder, Waging Peace, and author of When the Stars Fall to Earth
"Samuel Totten presents a unique set of essays by scholars from seven fields of inquiry. The reader is introduced to wide-ranging applications of social science theories, innovative historical analysis, and thoughtful sorties of moral imagination pertaining to a wide array of topics in regard to the crime of crimes. In certain cases, the joining of academic scholarship and activism may seem problematic, but the proof of its productivity may be found in the deeds and writings of many of the authors. Now in its third generation of scholars, the field of genocide studies may be reaching 'comfortable institutionalization.' As long as mass atrocities occur, they argue, genocide studies will advance only by uncomfortable revision, deepening, extension, and challenge."
--John Hubbel Weiss, Cornell University
"This collection of essays grabs the reader's attention by recounting the highly personal reasons that scholars acknowledged their duty to awaken the world to the horror of genocide. Their experiences bring a freshness and immediacy to a subject many would prefer to leave in the archives. Their stories are compelling and honest, and yet intellectually rigorous in handling the unpalatable facts. While international institutions continue to avert their eyes from the existence of contemporary genocide and ethnic cleansing, this volume will remain essential." --Rebecca Tinsley, founder, Waging Peace, and author of When the Stars Fall to Earth
"Samuel Totten presents a unique set of essays by scholars from seven fields of inquiry. The reader is introduced to wide-ranging applications of social science theories, innovative historical analysis, and thoughtful sorties of moral imagination pertaining to a wide array of topics in regard to the crime of crimes. In certain cases, the joining of academic scholarship and activism may seem problematic, but the proof of its productivity may be found in the deeds and writings of many of the authors. Now in its third generation of scholars, the field of genocide studies may be reaching 'comfortable institutionalization.' As long as mass atrocities occur, they argue, genocide studies will advance only by uncomfortable revision, deepening, extension, and challenge."
--John Hubbel Weiss, Cornell University
"This collection of essays grabs the reader's attention by recounting the highly personal reasons that scholars acknowledged their duty to awaken the world to the horror of genocide. Their experiences bring a freshness and immediacy to a subject many would prefer to leave in the archives. Their stories are compelling and honest, and yet intellectually rigorous in handling the unpalatable facts. While international institutions continue to avert their eyes from the existence of contemporary genocide and ethnic cleansing, this volume will remain essential." --Rebecca Tinsley, founder, Waging Peace, and author of When the Stars Fall to Earth
